Entry Step (REST Connector Virtual Service)

To display the Entry Step page:

1. Click the connector virtual service name in the CloudStreams Governance view.

2. Expand the In Sequence step in the editor.

3. Click Entry Step and view the following fields in the Properties view.

Name

You can optionally change the step name to any other name. There are no naming convention restrictions.

Type

(Read-only field.) Entry Step.

Protocol

(Read-only field.) The protocol of the requests that the connector virtual service will accept. The value “Local” means that the service can be called only from Cloud Connector Services.

HTTP Methods

The HTTP methods that the virtual services should be allowed to perform on the native services.

It is important to specify all the HTTP methods that are supported for the virtual services. For example, if a virtual service is deployed to CloudStreams and only the GET method was selected here, then CloudStreams will only permit GET invocations. A POST request will be rejected with a return of statusCode 405 even if the native service happens to support POSTs. It is also important for the native service to return the correct Content-Type header with its responses.

At run time, CloudStreams determines the type of a request message based on the message's HTTP method and its Content-Type. For a list of valid HTTP method/Content-Type combinations, see the section The Request Message's HTTP Methods and Content-Types for REST Services in the document Administering webMethods CloudStreams.